Tasmania's 'smoke-free generation' is undemocratic age discrimination

Apr 12, 2016 05:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Tasmania is considering legislation to create a tobacco-free generation by banning sales to persons born after July 1, 2000. It is a tobacco prohibition law, albeit one whose endgame will play out for future generations...

Should walking while using your mobile phone be outlawed?

Apr 12, 2016 04:40 am UTC| Law

As beneficial as they are to our lives, mobile phones also present a legitimate threat to public safety and not because of on-road use or radiation. Many mobile phone users now text, or intently perform some other...

Imported Seafood Shipments Rejected by FDA for “Unsafe Levels of Filth and Bacteria”

Apr 11, 2016 17:13 pm UTC| Business Law

BILOXI, Miss., April 11, 2016 A new USDA analysis of the Food and Drug Administrations import refusals report reveals that the FDA rejected tens of thousands of imported seafood shipments because they were unfit for human...

Five ideas to help fix Australia's tax system

Apr 10, 2016 23:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Our tax reform debate seems to be stuck. Our federal fiscal system is skewed. What kind of a fiscal bargain can we strike to build a better tax system for the future? A new federal bargain: share income tax and GST...

Twenty years after the High Court's Wik decision, how does the 'judicial activism' charge stand up?

Apr 10, 2016 22:52 pm UTC| Law

2016 marks 20 years since High Court handed down the Wik Peoples v Queensland decision on the extent to which pastoral leases over land in Queensland extinguished native title. This year also marks the 20-year anniversary...

Are drones really dangerous to airplanes?

Apr 10, 2016 00:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Law

Imagine boarding a plane. Economy class. Theres a kid behind you kicking the seat. You put on headphones and try to tune out the world. Immediately after takeoff, you feel a thud and hear an explosion over the sound of...

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Digital Currency Revolution

How blockchain could be used to make trusts more transparent

Apr 08, 2016 16:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Digital Currency Law

Amid the outcry over David Camerons tax affairs is the UK prime ministers intervention in 2013 to block EU transparency rules regarding offshore trusts. It was decided that trusts should not be held to the same standards...